Clarity MR caps for external crossover?


I'm in the process of selecting crossover caps for my Tannoy 215 DMT II. Clarity, Mundorf and Duelund have caught my attention after reading Tony Gee and Jon L shootouts. I need pairs of 4.8uF. 36.8uF and 200uF caps, so the project using any of these brands is expensive, and staggeringly expensive if I go with Duelund. Would appreciate hearing from people who have used these caps in crossover applications.

Thanks in advance,
Jay
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http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.html

An EXTENSIVE list of caps and thumbnail review of each.
Name your price: name your quality level: Take a chance!

Some combos with bypass caps are listed and given good marks.

Some of the downline Clarity caps are both affordable and an improvement on as-issued caps.

My panels come with Solen caps. Easily improved upon without taking out a home loan.
I'll get ZERO traction with this, but you may want to look into improving the inductor(s) in the bass circuit. This has the greatest need for power handling and may benefit from air cores. Stock inductors are probably iron/laminated/ferite cored. Matching DCR will gain power handling / headroom and not change the crossover point.
The other thing I see on 'stock' crossovers is incorrect placement of inductors.
Many are on the same plane and edge to edge where they interact....badly.
ALL coils should be at right angles to one another with as much spacing as reasonably possible. An external crossover maximizes these possibilities while keeping the capacitors safe the pressure changes inside an enclosure which breed microphonic effects.
Does Tannoy make there own drivers? Do they use SEAS or Dynaudio?

I like the idea of comparing 2 complete crossovers......You can than basically A/B them and see which is superior.
Going at this piecemeal may drive even a stable person crazy.
OH! one other thing. Many online inductor calculators exist. Some allow for more changes in dimensions than others. All can use any wire gauge.

My inductors for my Magnepan 1.6s is an aircore near-duplicate of the iron core stock. New is 14 ga. and 0.38ohms while the original is 16ga and .040ohms.
Within the 5% suggestion of Face.

Also, my inductor is 13 layers of 13 turns, so it is the theoretical 'perfect' shape for an inductor.

And to ice it, I managed to use as a core, some PVC so the size is both available and cheap.

I started an Excel spreadsheet and just started entering data spit out by the calculator I chose. Once I discerned a pattern, I zero'd in on what I wanted. THAN I checked my work on a couple other calculators. All agreed.